Hey, so I've had this t400 for the past year and a half. It came with a P8400 and 2gigs of ddr3, 160gig hd. it was pretty good for a while, but i could feel the restriction of the ram. first upgrade was changing out the 160hd for a 500gig hybrid from seagate.
couple weeks after i decided it was time for the ram, i chose some 1066mhz 8gig kit from muskin but it was on back order at the local computer store. I picked up a 8gig set from patriot but rated at 1333Mhz. i thought that it would just down clock the ram to appropriate speed.
i installed the ram without issue, but didn't care to check the speed of the processor. about a week after the install i was running a guymaster program and noticed a serious slow down, both cores were 100% more often then not.
a quick check of cpuz showed 700mhz at the cpu! i went through the bios and disabled what i could, but that yielded 1.6ghz instead of my rated 2.2.
ive checked around for bios updates and such but its all up to date. i then resulted to SETfsb but i haven't been able to identify my pll (even with sandra)my idea is to overclock it by changing the multi to 8 but currently is at 6 :S
any ideas or input?
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